"Don't talk nonsense! Who do you think I am?" Xia Yu said with a bitter smile, "I'm not an unscrupulous careerist. Why would I attack Meng Shixiong?"
"The City Lord's Mansion, Feihe Villa, the Diao Family, and even the General's Mansion..." Qiao Xiaopang said with his fingers, "Which one of them was not calculated by you? You are not a careerist, are you still a pure white flower?"
A flawless white lotus? The one with water droplets?"
"Get out of here!" Xia Yu said angrily, "It's not what you think anyway!"
Qiao Xiaopang hugged his arms and said: "The explanation is just sophistry! Anyway, Meng Shixiong is back, and his prestige in Hailuo City is definitely not comparable to that of Xue Caiyi! Song Jingran is also far worse than him! What should we do about this matter?
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"How many times have I told you?" Xia Yu frowned, "Meng Shixiong will not fight for power! His mind is not on that!"
"If you're not here now, what about in the future?" Qiao Xiaopang asked, "Aren't you afraid that Meng Shixiong will suddenly become ambitious one day?"
Xia Yu smiled and said: "We just had a fierce battle with the power of the City Lord's Mansion. Although Yue Conghai did not succeed, Meng Shixiong himself also suffered a loss. I heard that he was also seriously injured. What he should be worried about most now is how to deal with Yanli City.
threats, rather than fighting for power!”
"Having said that, will Meng Shixiong recover sooner or later? Will his lost manpower be replenished sooner or later? What will be done then?" Qiao Xiaopang asked.
"That will take a long time..." Xia Yu said slowly, "Whether it is the selection of personnel or logistics, we need the local support of Hailuo Prefecture. As long as we arrange some people to go in during the process, and at the same time use the Southwest Chamber of Commerce
With his own strength involved in the logistics of the General's Mansion, even if Meng Shixiong gets confused and becomes ambitious in the future, he will not pose much of a threat."
Fatty Qiao thought for a while, nodded slowly, and raised his thumb at Xia Yu, "I have to admit... you did this beautifully! I really admire you! You are so good at calculating!"
Xia Yu waved his hand, "Forget it, I just saved Yue Xiaolin and didn't do anything else! What Yue Xi and Fengyue did from the sea were all due to their own ambitions, not my instigation.
Don’t keep throwing these shit basins at my head!”
"Yeah... you haven't done anything, but you know everything and can calculate everything accurately. When others are exhausted from fighting life and death, the fruit of victory will be yours!" Qiao Xiaopang hugged his arms and said,
He said with a sarcastic face, "I have always believed that in order to bring peace to the world, force is not the most important, brains are the most important! A guy like you, who has a delicate heart and a bad belly, is definitely the best candidate!"
Xia Yu waved his hand, "He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, so don't blame me for anything! Also, if you have a beautiful heart and a bad belly, you are the one who deserves it, right?"
Qiao Xiaopang smiled "hehe", "How can I compete with you? Your level is much higher than mine! Well, you don't have to say anything. In short, you can't change my opinion, and I won't argue with you.
Let's wait and see! Let's go... didn't you say you should go see Meng Shixiong? Go now!"
The two were about to go out when Shangguan Linglong, who was doing nothing, stopped them and asked: "Yuwen, where are you going? Take me with you!"
Xia Yu smiled and said: "Go to Meng Shixiong's place and see his injuries."
"Then I'll go too! I'm a doctor and I'm best at treating injuries!"
Xia Yu smiled and said: "I really need you to go, but you can't go with Xiaopang and me. I'll ask Caiyi to take you there in the afternoon! You change into men's clothes at home first."
"Why? I want to go with you! I don't want to go with anyone else!" Shangguan Linglong said with a pout.
"The reasons here are very complicated, and I can't explain it at the moment..." Xia Yu said with a smile, "You can go in the afternoon, or pretend to be a man and don't talk, come back after seeing the injury, just think of it as doing me a favor, okay?
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"Oh... okay then!" Shangguan Linglong nodded reluctantly, "Then next time you go out, take me with you!"
"no problem!"
"Then I'll try to comb my hair in the morning. If it doesn't work, you can come back at noon and comb it for me!"
"Okay!" Xia Yu smiled and left the restaurant with Qiao Xiaopang.
Qiao Xiaopang murmured in a low voice as he walked, "Yuwen, Yuwen, you are really good at calculating. Now the road to Meng Shixiong has been paved for your sister Caiyi..."
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Meng Shixiong was seriously injured. Yue Conghai asked his earth-level masters to sneak attack him, and the weapon used in the sneak attack was poisoned. In other words, Meng Shixiong was not only injured, but also poisoned. When Xia Yu went there
, he was still lying on the bed.
In just a few days, Meng Shixiong seemed to have changed into a different person. His face was sallow and his cheeks were sunken. This was partly due to injuries and also due to heart problems.
Before going out to the city with Yue Conghai to suppress the bandits, military advisor Liu Buming and several of his confidants advised him to be careful about Yue Conghai, but Meng Shixiong did not listen to the advice of his subordinates and was not too wary of Yue Conghai. As a result, not only did he suffer
seriously injured,
Moreover, they also lost their troops. Except for Li Yishan, Liu Buming and other close confidants all died under the sneak attack of Yue Conghai's masters. If the soldiers had not resisted desperately, Meng Shixiong might have ended up in the wilderness.
Seeing Meng Shixiong's face, Xia Yu couldn't help but said: "General Meng, don't think too much, it's more important to recover from your injuries. The General's Mansion is still waiting for you to take charge of the overall situation!"
Meng Shixiong sighed, "I really regret it! If I hadn't gone my own way...how could this have happened?"
"I didn't expect Yue Conghai to be so courageous, but fortunately his plot didn't succeed..." Xia Yu said.
Meng Shixiong sighed and said: "Young Master Yuwen, it's really thanks to you this time, otherwise Hailuo City wouldn't know how much trouble there would be!"
Xia Yu smiled and said modestly: "Thanks to General Meng for arranging Feng Bao and the others..."
At this time, Huang Qishan was outside asking for a meeting, saying that he had military information to report.
Meng Shixiong called him in and said: "Qishan, I told you when we entered the city, didn't I leave all the affairs of the General's Mansion to you? Is there anything else that you can't be the master of?"
Huang Qishan lowered his voice and said: "General Meng, our brothers discovered the spies from Yanli City, fifty miles away from Hailuo City... I think the matter is of great importance, so I came here to report to General Meng!"
Meng Shixiong secretly sighed, "I knew it! There was such a big change in Hailuo City, and Zhou Xinglai would not just sit idly by and ignore it! I'm afraid he is ready to make another move! Young Master Yuwen, Young Master Qiao, you are not outsiders, help me think about it.
Thinking about how to deal with the current situation?"